Christopher Tessum | Jason Hill | Julian Marshall

What is InMAP?

InMAP is a recently developed model which offers a new approach to estimating the human health impacts caused by air pollutant emissions and how those impacts are distributed among different groups of people. InMAP is:

Accessible

Designed to be used by a wide range of professionals concerned with how air pollution affects health.

Comprehensive

One tool to perform an entire health impact analysis.

Fast

Runs on a desktop computer instead of a supercomputer as usually required by comprehensive air quality models.

Big + small

Able to simultaneously track within-city differences in impacts as well as impacts thousands of miles from the emissions source, unlike other simplified models.

Accurate

Meets published criteria for air quality model predictive performance.

InMAP allows users to explore the consequences of emissions changes at a high resolution in a simple and computationally inexpensive way.

Why use InMAP?

Because InMAP is a reduced complexity air quality model, it may not be the perfect tool for every job. However, InMAP is well suited for many situations, such as:

Projects that require many model runs, such as those that include scenario or uncertainty assessment.

Projects that would benefit from the combination of a large spatial resolution an high spatial resolution compared to what is available in other models.